Defense, SkyNews: China “enlists” former UK military pilots
Consultants teach Bejing military how to counter Western air tactics. It is unclear whether pilots from other NATO countries are also involved.
The Ukraine-Russia war revolutionizes the fighting in the skies
For the first time there was a dogfight between two Mavic, which saw the victory of the Kyiv’s drone. UAV, in fact, at least until now were not equipped with air-to-air weapons.
Russia-Ukraine, Norway increases defense spending
The proposed budget (+ 9.8%) gives priority to the north flank: Kola Peninsula and Barents Sea. Objectives: to improve the operations of the armed forces, including within NATO, and to help Kyiv.
Ukraine, Kyiv will receive 121 anti-Russian “Phoenix Ghost” drones
The UAVs were developed in record time by AVEVEX Aerospace, led by ISR specialists. They are similar to Switchblades, but appear to have unique characteristics.
Russia, Putin orders to strengthen infrastructure in the Kola Peninsula
This is where the Northern Fleet, currently engaged against Ukraine, is based. Objective: to finish the works by 2024 to fight NATO in the Arctic.
Ukraine: Sweden and Finland may soon join NATO
There is talk of June 2022 (Madrid summit). To counter Russia, a new “Gorizia Line” and an InfoWar center similar to the CCDCOE in Tallinn are being looked at.
Cyber Warfare, defense industries under attack by pro-Russia APTs
The boost of attacks-data breaches confirm that the phenomenon is growing and the crisis in Ukraine will worsen it. Will we move from cyber espionage to desruptions?
Cyber Espionage, IronHusky targets Defense and IT companies with MysterySnail
Kaspersky cybersecurity experts: The Chinese APT exploits the CVE-2021-40449 zero-day vulnerability in the Win32k kernel driver and the malware to escalate privileges.
Cyber Espionage, Iran DEV-0343 targets US-Israeli technology companies
Microsoft cybersecurity experts: The threat actors conducted extensive password spraying against more than 250 Office 365 tenants, included GIS and Persian Gulf ports.
White-hat hackers can now target all publicly accessible U.S. Defense information systems
The DoD expanded the VDP Program to let cybersecurity researchers testing also the less “famous” ones, but often strategic as the others.